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Kartveli Ou'blines New Generations 0f MilitarY Jets For tr\rture
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S$i DIEGO, Aug. 3
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An eight-enginee chemically powered,
craft capable of orbit,ing the
atmosphere
at
speeds up
to
globe-circling air-
171000 miles-an-hour was
described today by a leading aeronautical engineer, Alexand.er
Kartveli, pioneer aircraft engineer
rnrho
was responsible
for the de-
aj:craft types, including the famed P-l+7 Thunderbolt said he envisioned at least four more ttgenerationstr of advanced aircraft types befcre the building of satellites and spaceships becomes the chief concern of air vehicle
velopment
of
more
than
1l+
aviation gives way to trastronautics,rr He called the camying vehicle the ttultimate ai-rplane.rt
makers anC
The Russian-born
rlevelopment
on tire
25
man-
aeronautical designer who is vice president of research
for Republie Aviation Corporation,
Aer.onautical Seienees
Mlach
warned members
and
of the Institute of
at their national meeting here that the apparent
ltabdicationrt
part of designers with respeet to new, unique and advanced types of aircraft
desigyr could cause
atrtragic situation in the ftture.fi ile stated that the
unpre-
dictability of tomorrowts tactical, strategic or political needs, as well as the uncertainty of a potential enenyts intentions, d.emand that creative work in aeronautics continue.
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"tsITING I^ICIrID/
DESIGI']ER SEES Jf,T
is left in aircraft design, Kartveli outlj-ned the four new generations of aircraft ftrpes yet to be orploited. These ranged from twice-as-fast-es-sound vertical-rising jeis to the ilro00-mi1e-an-hour As a clue
to
how mueh more
trultimateil airplane.
potentiaL there
Based. on ciesign and.
analytical studies
conducted. within
Republicrs Research and Developinent groups, Kartveli presented designs of: New
Aircraft
Generations
a l{ach 2.3 (lr5o0 m.p.h. ) single-placee vertical-rising fighterof a-11-weather, pinpoint bonrbing from 75r000
boTnber capable
feet to
sea Ievel.
a nuclear-ramjet strategic bomber, capable of i{ach l+.25 (2r800 n,F.h.) for the 1970-75 tirne period. ttith a range of Br50O miles, such ein aircraft could be based wlthin the U.S., eliminating relianee on aIlied bases, ft would crrrise at B!r000 feet; the iwo-nan crew wouid be in a shielded compartrnent,
a l,iach 7 $1950 m.p.h.) bomber, shaped like a huge triaagle, capable of 1201O0O-feet-altitude cruises, a range of 51000 miles, and trro ranjet anci two twbojet engines for propulsion. Ai; speecls and a.liitucles beyonrl these,
in the region of Mach 25 Q:1r000),
Kartveli pictured the aircraft type which he believes will be the fi.nal design to
limit of aeronautical desigp has been reaehedn This he described as a:'rrliftjng machine rcith chemical air breathing po',^rerplant, carryirrg substantial tnilitary load, eapable of taking off from the ground, aceelerating to orbital speed, orbiting around the earth and landing on earth be aceomplisired before the
when desired.
He explained
that design consultants for Republic (Dr. Antonio Ferri,
General
Applied Scj-ence laboratory) fra,f already done trbasic exploratory wcrktt on a super-
smic
conrbustion scheme
to
power such
a craft in the ranges of
}dach
7.0 to
Mach 25
to fir000 ffi.p.h.). Kartveli said the propulsion r"rould come from for:r trydrogen-burning J-58 type engines in cornbination with four ramjets. It would be (hrg6O
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DESICNEfi, SEES
feet long
JII
and 33
CA'BITING i^lCH,ID/
feet high,
weigh some l+00r000 porrrds, 2Or000 pounds
of military
trn appearance
and irave a wingspan
half of which
would be
of nearly
liquid
99
trydrogen
feet. It
would
fuel supply and
payload,
the forward portion of the plane is shaped like a massive series
of air intake ducts, to
draw
in air in
huge
quantities to feed the internal
corn-
bustion chambers. tr
Piggy-B?gk'r Fighter
Sheltered within the streamlining
of the d.elta-wing styled lypersuric iet --
like a graceful fl+ing wedge -- is a sma1l paraslte aircraft clesigned for dispatehing to handle loca1 tactical missions. I(artveli said that the mother aircraft, capable of ranging in altitude from sea leveL to the outer fringes of the atmosphere had enough controi to maneuver, to change trajectory or to increase or decrease the size of its orbit, Admitting that there are still many problems to solve before such a vehicle
which looks
wouid,
f1y, such as the phenomena of
combining subsonic and supersonic combustion,
the aeronautical expert explained that there were preliminary research
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sound
technical reasons --
and
which indicated that such an ajrcraft was feasible. In his
opinion, because of cost and time problems, d.esign mry leapfrog from the Mach l+
aircraft directly to the Mach 25, Kartve1i,
who has had
a large role ln designing the first 100 m.p.hn
combat
first hffi m.p,h.e the first t00 m.p.ho Brrd the first 600 m.p.h. jet military aircraft, and now the lrl+O0-mite-an-hour all-r^reather F-105D uhich Republic is building for the Air Force, said. there will tralways be a require-
plane and, successively, the
ment
for
new and inproved
milltary airsraft.ri
The conrplicated dependence upon such
factors as military advantage, accrrracy
of delivery, survival, reliability, cost, time for
development, eneny
capability
and.
public opinion tend to shroud the future of man-carrylng military planes, Kartveli
said.
They overlook a
pressed.
And
eritical factor
this is, militarlr
and one r,rhich cannot, be mathematically ac-
$rperience, he statedr
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